Essay (30%): 750 words or 4 typed pages.

There are only 2 topics on which you may modify.

It will take some time to identity the exact dimensions and focus of your topic.

Please explain this step in your essay:

i) you choose topic number 1 or 2.

ii) the main source that you use is: Analects or another book

iii) the civilization and period of your essay: China?/ Spring and Autumns and Warring States?

Japan?/ Heian and Tokugawa periods?

Citation Style and Bibliography:

I don’t care whether it is MLA, Chicago Manual of Style, or any other style used by good journals or books.

Please include a bibliography.

1.

Read Confucius’ Analects in either Chinese or English translation:

http://www.indiana.edu/~p374/Analects_of_Confucius_(Eno-2012).pdf

http://ctext.org/analects

Watch Hu Mei’s Kongzi (2010) with English subtitles

http://www.letv.com/ptv/vplay/1715378.html

Select five concepts from Analects

Select one event from Confucius’ life in Hu Mei’s Kongzi

How did the Analects and Confucius’ life shape the society and state of one East Asian civilization during one particular period before 1800?

Example:

Select five concepts from Analects (e.g. benevolence, etc.)

Select one event from Hu Mei’s Kongzi (e.g., Confucius’ encounter with Lady Nanzi)

Choose a civilization and time period (e.g. Japan, Nara).

Your topic: How did the Analects and Confucius’ life shape the society and state of Japan during the Nara period?